Trip to Berlin

After only a 90 minute train ride from Hannover in an ICE high speed train we arrived at the new main staton in Berlin. After getting a day ticket for the public transport and checking in at the hotel we hopped on a bus from Bahnhof Zoo - the center in the western part of town - to Alexanderplatz - the historic center.
Not far from the old city palace that is in the process of being reconstructed we hopped on a cruise along the river Spree

It took us past the Friedrichstrasse train station where Ji had passed from the East to the West on her train trip from Shanghai to Hamburg many years ago. when this was the main transfer point from East Berlin to West Berlin for people that were allowed to travel to the west.

It also passed the Reichstag parliament building

Tiergarten and the Victory Column in the distance

Back past the museum island

When had finished the cruise the sun started to come out

 Past the city palace

Of course we had to stop at the Brandenburg gate

Mis knows how to take a selfie